It was a bad week for Tim Tebow, which means it was a bad week for ESPN, the network that last year took the unprecedented step of televising the New York Jets training camp each day, simply because Tebow was on the team.

Tebow is no longer on the team, so ESPN, the network that is obsessed with its own irrelevant obsessions, will have to look elsewhere for its version -- and nobody else's -- of The Next Big Thing.

Meanwhile, it was piling on time with Tebow, following his release by the Jets, who finally pulled the plug on Tebow time after they took Geno Smith in the draft, raising the number of quarterbacks on their roster to six.

That's at least four too many. It would be like President Obama deciding he needed five more vice presidents.

Anyway, Tebow is now free to sign with anyone. The challenge for him is to find anyone that wants to sign him.

How about the Browns?

Yeah, right. That'll happen. The Browns already don't have a quarterback. The last thing they need is another guy who can't play the position.

That's the opinion Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon, who was quoted last week as saying of Tebow: "You have to be able to throw it. That's his biggest problem, just being able to complete passes."

Well, yeah. That helps. But you have to admit Tebow does look good in a uniform.

The wonderfully-nicknamed Montreal Alouettes -- "Alouettes" wasn't that how Felipe Alou referred to his children? -- say they have an interest in signing Tebow. ... to compete for the job of backup quarterback ... to starter Anthony Cavillo ... who is 40 years old.

Not to be Montreal's backup quarterback, mind you, but merely to compete for the job of rarely playing.

So that's where Tebow's career is now.

The former Heisman Trophy winner's only job offer at the moment is to compete for the job of being the backup to a 40-year-old quarterback in the Canadian Football League.

And you thought Jimmy Haslam has had a bad couple of weeks?

Being an NFL quarterback is one of the most difficult jobs in all of sports. We know this because there are so few of them who can play the position well.

And as all of us here in Dawg Pound Nation know, the quarterback position played poorly is not a pretty sight. Here then, in no particular order, are the three toughest jobs in professional sports:

NFL quarterback: You have to be a leader, you have to be a smart, quick thinker, nimble afoot, you have to make incredibly difficult throws, sometimes on the run. You have to be able to "feel" a pass rush you can't see, survive getting smashed to the ground 10 or more times per game, keep all the diva wide receivers on your team happy, deal with a paranoid, egomaniacal head coach, and be a spokesman for the team, willing to take all the blame for any or all losses. The only upside: you sometimes get the girl.

NBA point guard: Most of the time you've got to be your team's best ball-handler, shooter, passer and thinker. OK, so the competition for that last quality isn't always that great. You play with the knowledge that if you have a really bad game, chances are your team is going to lose. You have to think like a coach and play like a world-class athlete. And on many nights you have to defend Russell Westbrook, Rajon Rondo, Chris Paul, Tony Parker, Steve Nash, Kyrie Irving or Derrick Rose. Good luck with all that.

Major League Baseball manager: Let's see, hundreds of individual decisions in every game, most of them eminently second guess-able by loud-mouthed, know-it-all fans, with 20-20 hindsight, 162 games per season. You have to deal with dozens of players from a variety of cultures, some of whom speak a language you don't, most of those players ranging from insecure to delusional about their talents, not to mention the calls you get from their agents questioning your handling of their clients. Then there's the impatient ownership, the suffocating media, the responsibility of being the face of the organization and the closer in a slump. Is it any wonder so many of these guys get burned out?

-- The three biggest spenders during Major League Baseball's offseason were the Blue Jays, Angels and Dodgers. At the start of play Saturday, the Blue Jays, were in last place, already 10 1/2 games out of first, the Angels were in second-to-last place and the Dodgers were in second-to-last place.

The three teams had a combined winning percentage of .390 (34-53).

So it's too close to call the winner of the race to become this year's worst team money can buy.

-- Kobe Bryant is in a court battle with his mother to keep her from auctioning off memorabilia from his high school days and his early years with the Lakers.

Bryant's mother says the only thing that will keep her from going through with the auction is if Bryant agrees to clean up his room, cut the grass and take out the garbage.

-- In case you were wondering, Mel Kiper is now taking a nap.

-- Notre Dame has announced that the school will add buildings and additional seating in and around the university's legendary football stadium.

There is already a mural on one building near the stadium referred to as "Touchdown Jesus." No word on whether the new buildings will also carry murals depicting "Field Goal Jesus" and "Interception Jesus."

Weak of the week

The San Diego Padres have announced that the team wants to open negotiations with Chase Headley on a new contract that would make him the highest paid player in team history.

Headley responded by saying he's not crazy about that idea because it would be a distraction.